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"When a scientist's discoveries and his wife are stolen from him by someone he thought was a friend, he goes to work as a clown who specializes in getting slapped. Once again he and his former friend fall in love with the same woman, but this time, he vows, he will have the last laugh."
"Brilliant inventor Paul Beaumont suffers a breakdown and changes professions -- he is now a circus clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. His life changes again when he falls in love with Consuelo, another circus performer."
"When a scientist's professional and personal life is destroyed by his patron, the unscrupulous Baron Regnard, he decides to lose himself in laughter and becomes France's most famous clown, 'He'. This tale of humiliation in the circus is curiously reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman's The Naked Night. The phantasmagorical circus scenes are the central focus of the film. The relationship between the crowd and the performers is given a symbolic dimension while Sjostrom projects something of the psychological state of the main character in visual terms experimenting, for example, with the use of small amounts of light amidst darkness."@en
"When a scientist's discoveries and wife are stolen from him by someone he thought was a friend he goes to work as a clown who specializes in getting slapped. Once again he and his former friend fall in love with the same woman, but this time, he vows, he will have the last laugh."
"When a scientist's discoveries and wife are stolen from him by someone he thought was a friend he goes to work as a clown who specializes in getting slapped. Once again he and his former friend fall in love with the same woman, but this time, he vows, he will have the last laugh."@en
"When a scientist's discoveries and wife are stolen from him by someone he thought was a friend he goes to work as a clown who specializes in getting slapped. Once again he and his former friend fall in love with the same woman, but this time, he vows, he will have the last laugh."
"Slap him once, slap him 100 times, the Big Top crowd roars. The clown known to delighted throngs as HE has made a comedic art of getting batted around. Life has battered him even more. Behind the mask, HE hides the torment of once being a brilliant scientist whose research and wife were stolen by a colleague. And behind the mask, when the time comes, HE realizes his revenge."@en
""On the eve of great success, a scientist ('He who gets slapped') loses both his invention and his wife to Baron Regnard, who describes his victim as a fool. He decides to lose himself in the laughter of others and becomes France's most famous clown. Even Consuelo, a bareback rider who loves her partner, Bezano, laughs when He confesses his love for her. Learning that Consuelo's father, Count Mancini, plans her marriage to Baron Regnard, He releases a lion which kills the pair; and, fatally stabbed by Regnard, the clown stumbles and staggers around the circus ring to the delight of the audience. He dies in the arms of Consuelo, who is free to marry Bezano"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930."
""On the eve of great success, a scientist ('He who gets slapped') loses both his invention and his wife to Baron Regnard, who describes his victim as a fool. He decides to lose himself in the laughter of others and becomes France's most famous clown. Even Consuelo, a bareback rider who loves her partner, Bezano, laughs when He confesses his love for her. Learning that Consuelo's father, Count Mancini, plans her marriage to Baron Regnard, He releases a lion which kills the pair; and, fatally stabbed by Regnard, the clown stumbles and staggers around the circus ring to the delight of the audience. He dies in the arms of Consuelo, who is free to marry Bezano"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930."@en